UGH I am FINALLY at the tail end of this nasty cold - I've been sick all week and it's been rough. Poor Katelyn's had it as bad as me (thankfully my 2 older girls weathered it a lot better and got through it a lot faster than the 2 (3! ;) ;)) of us) and it hasn't been fun at all.
Of course though from all the coughing and sneezing my voice is all rough and scratchy now - I sound worse now than earlier in the week when I was REALLY sick :P but I'm actually feeling better.
Anywho yesterday while Katelyn was napping and the girls were at school I had a bit of time to play so I made a card using one of the new sets from the Simon Says Stamp Hop To It release, and pulled out my new (to me) Gansai Tambi watercolours to play with those too:
This is the new Slumber Party set - so cute eh? There's a set of dies to match and a combo with the stencil that I've linked to in the supplies along with everything else just because ;).
I heat embossed the images before watercoloring, and I explain in the video why I used black embossing powder instead of stamping in black pigment ink and embossing with clear (which is MUCH easier). However now that I'm typing this I should attempt this again with my ZING Black EP (which is what I've linked to in the supplies - I like the ZING EPs) because the black embossing powder I used I've had for a long time (they don't really go bad in my opinion) and it's just a poor quality powder so I wonder. I don't know why I grabbed that powder to use rather than the ZING - preggo brain I'll chalk it up to! It's a horrible powder though - I mention in the video how much I hate it LOL (and why I haven't thrown it out by now who knows :P).
Regardless of that I did OK with my first attempt at watercoloring with these new watercolors - I definitely need to practice and play some more (need more time for that!!) but it's not horrible! ;)
To see how this card came together check out the video below:
Or watch directly on YouTube HERE <------click!
